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- Title
The Illusion of Proof.
- Authors
Baskerville, Barnet
- Abstract
This article focuses on the illusion of proof in education. In December 1953, at the SAA convention in New York City, New York, the author analyzed the techniques of one of the most pernicious communicators of falsehood in the present century, the late U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy. The author suggested at that time that McCarthy's technique of elaborate though phony documentation, his knack of creating the illusion of proof where there was no proof, represented a notable advancement in the art of demagogy because it was so cleverly designed to meet the demands of a public impressed by an apparatus of raw, harsh facts. The very fact that persuaders should feel it necessary to create the illusion of proof, is evidence that some progress has been made in public education.
- Subjects
EVIDENCE; DECEPTION; MCCARTHY, Joseph, 1908-1957; TRUTHFULNESS &; falsehood; PSYCHOLOGY; EDUCATION
- Publication
Western Speech, 1961, Vol 25, Issue 4, p236
- ISSN
0043-4205
- Publication type
Article